Cape Town
Try the viognier or shiraz at this boutique winery nestling among the Constantia vineyards, and enjoy a deli cuts platter (R145) or artisan cheese board …
Must-see attractions in Cape Town
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
This sheltered bay within the Cape Point section of Table Mountain National Park offers sweeping views across False Bay and a sea pool for safe swimming.
Green Point & Waterfront
Tours of Robben Island depart from this complex. Even if you don’t plan a visit to the island, it’s worth dropping by the museum here, with its focus on…
Sea Point to Hout Bay
You can easily wade into the sea from this rocky beach at a kink in the Sea Point Promenade near the animal-themed Promenade Pets benches.
Cape Town
The most elaborate example of art deco architecture on Greenmarket Sq, this building has majestic stone-carved eagles and flowers on its facade as well as…
Cape Town
Prolific street artist Faith47 (https://faith47.com) created this eight-storey-tall mother with a baby strapped to her back pointing up towards Lion’s…
Green Point & Waterfront
This red-and-grey Victorian Gothic–style building, dating from 1882, is from where the harbour master used to control the comings and goings in the docks.
Cape Town
This dazzling white art deco building fronting onto Greenmarket Sq was built in 1928 and renovated in 1990.
Cape Town
Partly modelled on the arch at London’s Hyde Park Corner, this monumental granite memorial stands on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, at a spot where…
Cape Town
New to the Durbanville wine route, Canto is a boutique winery offering tastings in the church-like cellar/tasting room. Particularly popular is the bubbly…
Cape Town
The Drill Hall, dating from 1889 and where Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 21st birthday, has been sensitively restored and turned into the city’s…
Cape Town
For the non-academic there’s no pressing reason to visit UCT, but it’s nonetheless an impressive place to walk around. Unfortunately, it has experienced…
Cape Town
There are studio spaces for artists and craftspeople in this fabulous art-deco building, once a cinema, including that of blacksmith Conrad Hicks. Some of…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
Actually an overhang, this cave is named after Victor Peers, who, with his son Bertie, started excavating the site in 1927, collecting evidence of Khoe…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
Principally for naval enthusiasts, this museum nonetheless has plenty of interesting exhibits, including model ships and submarines, uniforms and a life…
Cape Town
Inside this small building at the northern corner of the Hely-Hutchinson Reservoir on Table Mountain's Back Table, various bits of machinery used to build…
Cape Town
This defensive position, built by the British between 1795 and 1803, can be reached by a steep hiking path from behind the Rhodes Memorial or by walking…
Cape Town
Kimberley-born artist Jacques Coetzer was the winner of a World Design Capital competition in 2014 to create a piece of public art for the city. Rising up…
Michaelis Collection at the Old Town House
Cape Town
On the south side of Greenmarket Sq is the beautifully restored Old Town House, a Cape rococo building dating from 1755 that was once City Hall. It now…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
Simon’s Town had a 7000-strong community of people of colour before apartheid forcibly removed most of them, mainly to the suburb of Ocean’s View, over on…
Cape Town
The more attractive and abstract of the two statues of former general and prime minister (1870–1950) Jan Smuts, which stand at opposite ends of Government…
Cape Town
A chance to see inside the mid-18th century Huguenot House, mainly occupied by the diamond merchants and jewellers Prins & Prins. There's no pressure to…
Cape Town
Booking a two-hour guided tour is the only way you can see the very theatre in Groote Schuur Hospital where history was made in 1967 when Dr Christiaan…
Cape Town
The only surviving Georgian-style brick house in Cape Town dates from the 1840s. At the time of research it was closed for maintenance, so you may only be…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
Immortalised in bronze in 1985 by artist Jean Doyle, this famous local canine mascot lived from 1937 to 1944 and is fondly remembered for befriending…
Cape Town
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela gave his first speech as a free man from the balcony at Cape Town City Hall. To celebrate the centenary of his birth,…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
There’s ostriches aplenty at this family-run farm, restaurant and tourist complex just 500m from Cape Point’s main gate. Regular tours of the breeding…
Cape Town
The displays and star shows here unravel the mysteries of the southern hemisphere’s night sky using images caught by the Southern African Large Telescope …
Cape Town
Climb the wooden staircase leading to the top of this sand hill for a sweeping view of Khayelitsha township. For access it’s best to go into the cultural…
Cape Town
This real Dutch windmill dating from around 1796 is the only such working mill south of the Sahara. The thatched cap can rotate to face the wind. Check…
Cape Town
This leafy park, named in honour of former Cape Town mayor Christiaan de Waal, is much patronised by local dog owners. Between December and early April…
Cape Town
Housed within the former Governor's Quarters at the Castle of Good Hope is the bulk of the William Fehr Collection, including some fabulous bits of Cape…
Cape Town
This beautiful collection of Cape Georgian and Victorian buildings was saved from the wrecking ball in 1996. As well as a hotel and several cafes and…
Cape Town
This municipal park occupies a tiny part of the historic 'Oranje Zicht' – the original farm that was established in the Upper Table Valley in 1709. There…
Cape Town
This planting of 1555 different trees representing 274 species, begun in 1885 by Joseph Storr Lister, the conservator of forests for the Cape Colony, is…
Green Point & Waterfront
Today it's Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, but in the past this complex housed thousands of prisoners whose hard labour helped build the V&A…
Cape Town
This park, which is slated for redevelopment by the city and has a good public swimming pool (closed at the time of research), contains the remains of the…
Green Point & Waterfront
Preserved as a small museum is the Waterfront’s Jetty 1, from where boats sailed to Robben Island when it was a prison. You can view the tiny holding…
Cape Town
One of two statues of Jan Smuts located in the city centre, this is the more traditional interpretation of the former general and prime minister (1870…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
This small beach, next to St James train station, has colourful bathing chalets and a tidal pool for safe swimming. It's popular with families.
